Stakeholder Engagement Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Stakeholder Engagement skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 31 84
Rank change year-on-year +8 +53 +32
Contract jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement 175 117 39
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 7.49% 6.38% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.54% 6.77% 2.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 87 27
10th Percentile £400 £413 £358
25th Percentile £481 £463 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% -19.23%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £650
90th Percentile £764 £788 £743
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -2.65% +7.62% -19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £74.50 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Stakeholder Engagement falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,048 1,728 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.67% 94.27% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,405 1,130 1,264
10th Percentile £379 £325 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% +6.50%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.33% +8.55% -14.30%

Stakeholder Engagement
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Stakeholder Engagement relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Stakeholder Engagement job vacancy trend in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Stakeholder Engagement in the City of London

Stakeholder Engagement
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Stakeholder Engagement

Stakeholder Engagement
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Stakeholder Engagement within the City of London region over the 6 months to 21 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge +1 1 £550 -24.14%
Stakeholder Engagement
Central London

Stakeholder Engagement
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.43%) Confluence
4 5 (2.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.57%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) HCL Notes
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.57%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.71%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (3.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.14%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.57%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.57%) Maximo
3 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP FI-AR
3 1 (0.57%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.57%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.57%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (26.29%) Azure
2 26 (14.86%) Power Platform
3 22 (12.57%) AWS
4 12 (6.86%) Azure Data Factory
4 12 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (6.86%) GCP
5 10 (5.71%) SaaS
6 7 (4.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 6 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.43%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.86%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 4 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (2.29%) Power Automate
9 4 (2.29%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.29%) Serverless
10 3 (1.71%) Amazon Bedrock
10 3 (1.71%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) Network Security
2 2 (1.14%) DNS
2 2 (1.14%) LAN
2 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
2 2 (1.14%) VPN
2 2 (1.14%) WAN
2 2 (1.14%) Wireless
3 1 (0.57%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (0.57%) Firewall
3 1 (0.57%) Internet
3 1 (0.57%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.57%) PSTN
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VLAN
3 1 (0.57%) VoIP
3 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (13.14%) Power BI
2 13 (7.43%) Metadata
3 9 (5.14%) Data Lake
3 9 (5.14%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.71%) Power Query
4 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.71%) Tableau
5 2 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.14%) Data Mining
5 2 (1.14%) Data Vault
5 2 (1.14%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.14%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.14%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.14%) SAP BW
5 2 (1.14%) Star Schema
6 1 (0.57%) DataStage
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 14 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (1.71%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) Git
3 2 (1.14%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.57%) JDeveloper
4 1 (0.57%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.57%) JUnit
4 1 (0.57%) MLflow
4 1 (0.57%) Mockito
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (0.57%) Selenium
General
1 74 (42.29%) Social Skills
2 65 (37.14%) Finance
3 32 (18.29%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (16.57%) Public Sector
5 23 (13.14%) Banking
6 12 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.57%) Retail
8 6 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.43%) Investment Banking
8 6 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Marketing
10 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.29%) Police
11 3 (1.71%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.71%) Front Office
11 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.14%) Legal
12 2 (1.14%) Local Government
12 2 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (18.86%) Architect
2 26 (14.86%) Analyst
3 23 (13.14%) Lead
4 20 (11.43%) Senior
5 17 (9.71%) Data Architect
6 14 (8.00%) Business Analyst
6 14 (8.00%) Project Manager
7 10 (5.71%) Consultant
7 10 (5.71%) Developer
8 8 (4.57%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.00%) Security Architect
10 6 (3.43%) Change Manager
10 6 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
11 5 (2.86%) Data Engineer
11 5 (2.86%) Delivery Manager
11 5 (2.86%) Security Manager
11 5 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.86%) Senior Developer
11 5 (2.86%) Strategy Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.29%) PySpark
2 9 (5.14%) Terraform
3 3 (1.71%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.71%) Middleware
3 3 (1.71%) REST
3 3 (1.71%) XML
4 2 (1.14%) .NET
4 2 (1.14%) Flask
4 2 (1.14%) JSON
4 2 (1.14%) React
4 2 (1.14%) RESTful
4 2 (1.14%) Spring
4 2 (1.14%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.57%) OAuth
5 1 (0.57%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.57%) OpenID
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.57%) pytest
5 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.29%) Cloud Native
3 10 (5.71%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.43%) AI Agents
4 6 (3.43%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Reference Data
7 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.14%) FMCG
7 2 (1.14%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) CSOC
8 1 (0.57%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.57%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.57%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.71%) Linux
1 3 (1.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 49 (28.00%) Agile
3 35 (20.00%) Analytics
4 33 (18.86%) Decision-Making
5 31 (17.71%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (17.14%) AI
7 28 (16.00%) Roadmaps
8 27 (15.43%) Data Modelling
8 27 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (14.86%) Data Governance
9 26 (14.86%) Migration
10 24 (13.71%) DevOps
11 22 (12.57%) CI/CD
12 20 (11.43%) Change Management
13 19 (10.86%) Data Architecture
14 16 (9.14%) Project Delivery
14 16 (9.14%) Project Management
15 15 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
15 15 (8.57%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.43%) SQL
2 19 (10.86%) Python
3 7 (4.00%) Bicep
4 6 (3.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.14%) C#
5 2 (1.14%) Java
5 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.57%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.57%) Scala
6 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.57%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.71%) Degree
4 6 (3.43%) PMP
5 5 (2.86%) DBS Check
6 4 (2.29%) Azure Certification
6 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (2.29%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.14%) CEH
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.14%) CISSP
8 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.14%) CREST Certified
8 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.14%) OSCP
9 1 (0.57%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.57%) GPEN
9 1 (0.57%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.43%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.71%) PMO
2 10 (5.71%) QA
3 9 (5.14%) GDPR
4 8 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (4.57%) NIST
5 5 (2.86%) NCSC
6 4 (2.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.71%) SLA
8 2 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.14%) GRC
8 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 2 (1.14%) PERC
9 1 (0.57%) EU AI Act
9 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.57%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Docker
2 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.14%) Istio
4 1 (0.57%) Grafana
4 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.29%) Databricks
3 15 (8.57%) SAP
4 6 (3.43%) Google
4 6 (3.43%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.86%) Oracle
6 4 (2.29%) OpenAI
6 4 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.71%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.71%) Remedy
8 2 (1.14%) BMC
8 2 (1.14%) Cisco
8 2 (1.14%) IBM
8 2 (1.14%) Informatica
8 2 (1.14%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) Workday
9 1 (0.57%) Freshdesk
9 1 (0.57%) IFS
9 1 (0.57%) Planon
9 1 (0.57%) Qualtrics